Re: Possible to use format/2 to print a table with right-justified columns?
emacstheviking <[email protected]>
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Forgot to add that I would write a small predicate to then calculate the length of the string from the padding and actually make the number of spaces ensure right justification blah blah yadda yadda but I am sure you got that anyway! :) Perhaps I should do it for myself anyway! On 21 August 2014 13:53, emacstheviking <[email protected]> wrote: > Best I managed was this: > > yes > > | ?- *format('~*c~s',[10,32,"Hello"]).* > > format('~*c~s',[10,32,"Hello"]). > > Hello > > > yes > > | ?- *format('~*c~s',[20,32,"Hello"]).* > > format('~*c~s',[20,32,"Hello"]). > > Hello > > > > VALUE would be replaced with whatever you want to print at that point, > probably another format specifier. By using * you can alter the width and > the 'c' (with 32) allows spaces to be used as the pad. > > Thanks, > Sean. > > > On 21 August 2014 12:19, Paulo Moura <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to use GNU Prolog format/2 predicate to print a table with >> right-justified columns? The original Quintus Prolog implementation of this >> predicate provide format control sequences to set and align with tab stops >> but this seems to not be implemented in GNU Prolog. Is there any >> alternative usage of the format/2 predicate that I'm missing? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Paulo >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Paulo Moura >> Logtalk developer >> >> Email: <mailto:[email protected]> >> Web: <http://logtalk.org/> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users-prolog mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog >> > > _______________________________________________ Users-prolog mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog